André Alexis
Auteur de Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue
A propos de l'auteur
André Alexis was born in Trinidad and raised in Canada, where he has lived since he was three years old. His works include Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, Childhood, and Fifteen Dogs, which won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and afficher plus anthologies and he has also written extensively for radio and theater. Several of his plays have been produced in Vancouver and Toronto, and he has been a playwright-in-residence for the Canadian Stage Company. Alexis also writes reviews for The Globe and Mail, and he is a contributing editor to This Magazine, a bimonthly Canadian alternative journal. (Bowker Author Biography) Andre Alexis was born in Trinidad in 1957 & grew up in Canada. Alexis lives in Toronto. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Crédit image: Sari Ginsberg
Séries
Œuvres de André Alexis
The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers: 14 (2002) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
Winter, or A Town Near Palgrave 1 exemplaire
Tanrilar Zar Attiginda 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Alexis, André
- Date de naissance
- 1957-01-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Trinidad and Tobago (birth)
Canada (naturalized) - Lieu de naissance
- Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- Lieux de résidence
- Trinidad and Tobago
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Professions
- writer
- Organisations
- This Magazine
- Prix et distinctions
- Windham Campbell Award (2017)
- Courte biographie
- Host and creator, CBC Radio’s Skylarking. Following his parents, who left Trinidad in the late 1950s, André Alexis and his younger sister immigrated to Canada in 1961. After a short stint in the southwestern Ontario town of Petrolia, Alexis and his family moved to Ottawa, where he subsequently spent most of his youth.
Alexis began his artistic career in the theater, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company (CanStage)
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- Œuvres
- 16
- Membres
- 1,491
- Popularité
- #17,230
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 87
- ISBN
- 75
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 4